skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> where just eating less and doing more sport doesn't really work

I can understand it not working because it's hard to eat less when attempting to lose weight (something I've struggled with for a long time), but I know if I eat less calories, then I reliably lose weight. I can drop 2lb a week very easily by maintaining a deficit, but I regularly fail in my long-term objective and bounce back when I get stressed and overeat back over 2000 calories/day. So at least for me (most/all people?), it's not that eating less doesn't work, it's the inability to do that (genes/depression/stress/environment/whatever) which is the root cause.
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I really enjoyed your reply, I giggled, I laughed and I agree. I wouldn't have been able to reply in such a non-sarcastic way and serious way as you did, though.
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> It is a decrease in already low transmission. For ethical reasons, the placebo group is not no treatment, but rather current standard of care.

I see nothing wrong with sacrificing a few men, who consent and sign up and know the risk, for the far larger majority.

If better drugs can be developed that would serve millions by sacrificing a hundred consenting subjects that know they run this risk, that seems like an overall benefit to me.

It seems rather irrational to not be willing to do this. — It is fine if men die, so long as their blood not be on my hands directly, but only indirectly.
We switched to use the https://www.borgbackup.org/ software, which does deduplication, and rsync.net offers special lower pricing https://rsync.net/products/attic.html Note the "There is NO borg specific technical support or integration engineering. You're here because you're an expert." disclaimer.
> The cost, however, is steep — the list, or wholesale, price is $3,960 a month, or more than $47,500 a year.

Remember though that this is a replacement for an existing drug therapy, not something totally new. Does anyone know how much the daily pills cost per month?
Apple Releases iOS 14.4 and iPadOS 14.4 with New Camera Warnings and Bug Fixes
Just realised he's the "Human Bean" when watching that, which I think was another HN recommendation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYsTlfhDSDY
South Africa releases its own browser just to re-enable Flash support
You can turn off all their streaming options in the settings.

On web:

- Screwdriver/wrench icon top-right

- In the left panel look for the "<your username>" heading, underneath it, click "online sources"

- Click "Edit" and change "Enabled" to "Disabled"

You won't see those sources again.

As for seeking, I never see delays when using direct play (which is near 100% of my usage). I tried seeking with a transcode just now and it takes ~1s from interaction to the video playing again, which isn't too bad and I don't think is avoidable.

If you watch transcodes a lot and this bothers you though, consider whether "Optimized Versions" (transcoding ahead of time) would be good for you. Aside from that, I don't think a solution exists, it's a problem inherent to seeking while transcoding.

Not a Plex employee or anything, I've just been using it for what feels like close to a decade now.

EDIT: I just watched some stuff through Plex on my Apple TV and seeking is actually instant. On the Apple TV, each button click jumps forward ten seconds or so and as far as I can tell, each jump is instantaneous, no buffering or delays whatsoever.
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It must be hard to be this naive ^^
>This symbolizes the futility of human existence and its incessant search for meaning in a cold and unfeeling universe that’s ultimately profoundly devoid of such, and then you die.

>Not having to wake up to a buzzer is cool, though.

Hilarious!
Also it's all-or-nothing: the security tools are a good example where it could easily be worth paying a reasonable amount for either an optional feature or upgrades for specific users but when that applies a big up-front multiplier to your entire organization it becomes a much harder sale.
Yes. The pcb board actually has through holes to connect other sensors to unused IOs and you can easily adjust the software because it is open source.
https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/requirements-to-run...

It’s actually 3g up and down. It’s 10 gig Metro-E into a Juniper switch, with a 1g port and 10g port throttled to 2g.
Also checking /r/sysadmin and sorting by new
The reverse logic could work here just as well. People have the power to regulate Facebook, ergo it will get regulated. If Facebook doesn't like it, they can always stay in other markets.
That's basically the reason why interest rates should be above 0% right now. Inflation is mild but it is still higher than 0%. I consider it extremely foolish of the Fed that the interest rates aren't at least at 0.5% just to send a signal that the easy money is slowly disappearing.

That easy money is driving malinvestment and it will just fuel any future bubble that inevitably ends up popping.
Nope. That is abstract. It looked exactly like the 2 blurred cutouts from the Entsoe article, where they put in the probable causes textmarker style. Interestingly it is hard to find screenshots of good quality or at all. Seems to have been a very special interest of mine?
I'd thank you but what's the point
The fundamental driver towards cities is a winner-take-all economy. When markets strongly favor the winners and flush out the losers, people have a strong incentive to be near the winners, in hopes that they'll be one of them (or at least able to ride their coattails). When markets are stagnant or divided into lots of local winners, it favors decentralization, suburbs, and rural areas. It was like this in the 1970s and 1930s as well, as well as the Dark Ages after the fall of the Roman Empire.

Right now everybody who's not making stuff directly useful for the pandemic is a loser, and most of the few winners positioned their products years ago and lucked into the COVID boom. There's no incentive to be near cities, because there's not a whole lot of innovation or economic revolution happening. That'll change very quickly if the economy comes roaring back, particularly if accompanied by major technological or social changes that open up new markets.
That is your opinion and your problem and there's an about:config option to disable it.
I have said they are profitable, not by how much. Of course they are not profitable 'enough' to do what they want to do in terms of Starlink and Mars.

SpaceX always reinvested every penny into development and they have done so for a long time.
The point is when the image is not an image. Maybe it's being drawn on a canvas, or composited with multiple layers, or you want only a part of it (all of these apply to Photopea, I believe).

I don't like the way clipboard access is handled in browsers either, but the fact remains that if I'm using an in-browser image editor, select a part of the image and press CTRL+C, I want that portion of the image in my clipboard. How it gets there is an implementation detail that the average user doesn't and, if it doesn't affect security/privacy, shouldn't have to care about. And since it's write-only, there's no security/privacy concern.
I dislike NIMBYs, but this is one place where they have a valid practical complaint. Most schools are funded largely by property taxes, so the "price" of public school is roughly (housing cost)/(number of school-aged children). Larger apartments are still low housing cost compared to an equivalent house, so a family renting a large apartment will contribute less per student. And apartments come in bunches, so if you change an apartment complex from 100 studios and 1BR to 60 S/1BR and 20 2BR, you might 10x the fiscal impact of the complex on the school district.

We get to pretend that there's not a per-student price for public school, while disguising the fact that there's a mostly congruent "space and quality of life" price instead. A different funding formula for schools would make a lot of practical NIMBYs stop caring.
How so? They had that recent batch of safe optimizations, and trying to make fsync act closer to what it actually says is a pretty good thing.
> I have no particular insight into the pricing of this drug, but in general, NIAID funding doesn't get anywhere close to the level of investment needed to bring a drug to market (NIAID's total budget is something like $5Bn. A single drug can easily require that much money to go to market).

According to [1] "the estimated median capitalized research and development cost per product was $985 million, counting expenditures on failed trials." That billion dollar figure is risk adjusted per product meaning that's the cost of all R&D and clinical trials against the number of products that hit the market. A lucky startup can pull off a successful trial for a few hundred million (i.e. Sofosbuvir), if not tens of millions for an orphan drug.

The most expensive ("oncology and immuno-modulatory drugs" which are similar in complexity to HIV therapeutics) come in at a median of $2.8 billion and a mean of $4.5 billion but only because of an extreme outlier, Dupixent, which cost over $6 billion to develop. Dupixent costs $40k/year and has a much larger target market than this HIV treatment (IIRC on the order of 10 to 100x). This HIV injection is far more likely to be discounted in the developing world so the sticker price likely reflects that too.

A $5 billion a year budget can go very far and the people should get the rewards for taking the risk, especially for a disease like HIV that has significant quality of life impacts on vulnerable populations.

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/27623...
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Apple execs discussed not “leaving money on the table” for subscription fees
Damn! Thought I was the only person who ever experienced this, it's cool that you decided to post this here. Anyway, I can actually do this with my glasses off as well. Lay on your back and stare up at the light with your eyes nearest to closed as possible but still letting in a little light, it takes some adjusting to get it into focus but you get the full 4k experience just as you describe. Thanks for sharing.
Andy from Backblaze here. Larger drives do take longer to rebuild, but to date we haven't changed the encoding algorithms we built. There are other strategies like cloning which can reduce rebuild time. We can also prioritize rebuilds or drop a drive into read-only mode as needed. The system was built expecting drive failures.
I don't think you'd want to use servos to drive the wheels for something like this. You probably want very fast steppers (so you can get precise rotations) or geared DC motors (so you can move very fast). I'm assuming the robot has some very basic black and white computer vision, or maybe even simple laser range finders, which would be simpler to work with and more likely to generalize to new mazes.

Here is an example of an inexpensive laser range sensor:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/TOF10120-ToF-Laser-Range-Sensor-Las...
Iran controls Iraq, all important positions in all minitries are appointed/approved informally by Iranian leadership, this is why Qasem Soleimani was killed and that is why he was in Iraq.
What do you mean by saying the wire is cheap? Obviously you can’t send much high frequency data down the wire but each wire could only be used for one call at a time for much of the company’s history, so more wires were needed. What effect does that have on the cost? And surely the complexity is still in the CO with the internet, or am I missing something?
Aren't they all active on Twitter? Greenwald certainly is. It's a major part of their brand-building effort already at the very least
> CEC

I've been using kodi but recently my hdmi cable started going bad. CEC worked with that one but for some reason that I don't understand I can't get another cable that it works with. I've tried old and new cables, microhdmi-hdmi, hdmi-hdmi with a microhdmi adapter, combinations of the above, but no matter what I can't find another cable that CEC works with. Would you happen to have any idea why this would be happening?

Also when I switch back to the cable that's failing CEC works again. I can't explain it. And yes, I have CEC enabled on the TV.
> To me - it looks like it's a concerted effort by some entity to try and raise (certain?) peoples fears

Which certain peoples? Did it raise your fears? Which type person are you?
The Real Reason: "UPS is union busting".

I was wondering why Amazon is moving to its own delivery service and why UPS is selling. I did a quick search and noticed UPS Tucking is unionized

http://teamsterslocal638.org/local-work-sites/ups/

So UPS wants to dump the union before the new US admin starts looking at Labor.
Very sorry to learn about this very disappointing news about upselling a product that was worth every single penny and that I have been using professionally for the last four years. It is not really the price hike that worries here, but rather the realization that we're locked into a product with a volatile price that can double or even triple at any time.
I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that there’s a slight problem with saying “social networks shouldn’t become paid because some users will leave”.

This line of reasoning implicitly treats those products as some sort of public good. I imagine it’s beneficial to their owners—but is it to the users?

There’s a conflict of interest here. Networks want to be free. Huge account numbers and de-facto public good status positively influence network valuations and allow them to charge more for ads; armies of troll and no-value accounts greatly inflate the numbers; the loser turns out to be legitimate users. If we are sure they remain afloat if we pay them, why should we worry about product’s popularity more than our own treatment?

They are not central parks or public squares. They don’t have the obligation of being free. They are free to discriminate subscription prices between countries, which many companies do today (Apple Music is 5 times cheaper in India than in the US[0]).

And if geographical price discrimination is not enough, if I’m poor I have the freedom to use another social network that charges less or nothing; when I (hopefully) grow my income and get fed up with myself being a product of X I can choose to invest into a more expensive tier of social networking and move my social presence[1] to Y—what’s wrong with that?

I suspect that normalizing paid options could make social networking more heterogenous, encourage competition, and likely benefit the society in the long run.

[0] https://www.cashnetusa.com/blog/which-countries-pay-most-and...

[1] If https://datatransferproject.dev pans out, I could perhaps even take my posts with me.
How about a standard how heavy the site (and other meta details) before it is loaded within the html spec? In this way, a user can opt out to continuing to browsing with details from say a short response header.

Is something like already proposed anywhere, or not really a solution to the problem — thoughts?
I still have my copy, I really liked that program and bought it early on, it's a bummer it can't be supported.
>"try all the common vertical scale-up approaches and tricks. Try to avoid using derivative Postgres products, or employing distributed approaches, or home-brewed sharding at all costs – until you have, say, less than 1 year of breathing room available."

Very healthy approach. I've always followed the idea of vertical scalability when writing my modern C++ app servers with local Postgres. Since I do not sell those to FAANG I've never failed finding decent very reasonably priced piece of hardware be it dedicated hosting or on prem that would not satisfy client's need for any foreseeable future. More then that. I've never needed even top of the line hardware for that. I concentrate on features and robustness instead. Using C++ also gives nice speedup.
It's interesting how that song in particular instantly zones-out the listener. Even though I've heard it hundreds of times, I had to look up the second line to make sure I had the right one.
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People use the tools they have available and understand. Rust, at the time this bug was introduced into sudo, was barely a year old, and hadn't even released 0.1 yet.

Also, the sarcasm in your comment really doesn't help your message.
>no electromechanical central office was ever down for more than 30 minutes for any reason than a natural disaster or, one occasion, a major file

Are these systems even comparable? Today /= yesterday phone service....
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I think you're referring to the "Top Sites" feature. These will change based on how often you visit sites. You can pin sites so that they don't change.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customize-firefox-home-...
DNS load balancing works good enough if you have smart enough clients (not web browsers), and your pool of server IPs is fairly static. If you can select randomly from a list of names, and then try several of the A/AAAA records from that result, then you may have some delay if you pull a dead server from a cached record, but it won't be too bad. SRV records and really smart clients should work pretty well too, but not a lot of people have really smart clients.

The vast majority of ISP caches won't keep your low TTL records in cache for years, but some do; this is a problem if you have to move your load balancers ever too though.

Depends on how stable your servers are vs your load balancers, and how many connections you need; and if you have enough IP addresses to give public IPs to your servers. Also, if you really absolutely need to control the load precisely, DNS isn't going to ever give you that.
Very nice project! I have a question on the light and sound sensor you use. Are these able to output calibrated values eg in Lux and dB?
There's a difference between changing the pricing model and raising prices.

gitlab is changing their pricing model; as near as I can tell, they want to be a source control / jira / CI all-in-one environment. My guess is the willingness to pay vs github for just plain source control isn't there.

:shrug:

This is the risk with saas though. Customers are adults; they can choose to continue using your product or not. If customers don't want the saas they buy to be able to change models or raise prices, their choices are (1) don't use it; or (2) sign annual or even multiyear agreements. And if a company evaluates software that won't make multiyear commitments to them, they should take that unwillingness into account when choosing which vendor to use.
Related threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25917798

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25917986

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25918490
i would have liked to see details of layer4 vs layer7 load balancing. The latter invovles terminating a tcp session and reinitiating one to backend.
How did he store the memory? Using some kind of small gearings inside the mouse?
Wasn't that also because before http2 browsers were limiting the number of concurrent requests to a domain?
It's not just the ads. Tag managers are the scourge of performance. Marketing folk just want to stuff them full with dozens of analytics services and third party integrations. And they want to do that without involving pesky engineers.

Some, like Google Optimize, tell you to to clobber performance by hiding all content on your page using CSS until their code has loaded and run.
many slaves in Ottoman Empire were of Slavic origin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean%E2%80%93Nogai_slave_ra...

not sure why the downvotes. I suppose some people believe that slavery existed only in USA, and consider it offensive to suggest otherwise.
Yeah, there are a lot of these kind of tickets imho
I'm pretty frustrated by advertising too, and some of it is particularly egregious, but at the moment, there is really no other way for many publishers to get paid.

I'm curious, how many services do you subscribe to and pay for content? I pay for a few ad free resources, but certainly a lot of the sites I enjoy don't get my $$.
thank you, that is great news!
Sites can set as many cookies as they want. I have installed temporary containers (that is a Firefox only feature sadly), 15 minutes after I close the last tab in that group all those cookies are automatically deleted.

Each tab group then has its own cookie container, so I can have multiple groups open and they don't share anything - I can login to different google (or any other service) accounts in different contains and it works like I want it to.

For the sites that I want to use logged in, I either create a special container for that site only, or I just use a password manager to log me in each time I need to visit it.

The added privacy is great, the peace of mind in just clicking I agree is great.
They are doing all this stuff and still don't support audiobooks or syncing positions between clients. I would pay money just for those two extra features.

This feature is fine, but I would really like to have more control and deactivate features that they try to push on me.

I don't need news and I probably want need these games, and I don't like stuff just 'showing up' unasked.
doas has a much smaller attack surface, and is worth checking out.
Very happy rsync customer here. Their pricing is kind of weird, but after being a customer for a year or so they gave me a big discount that makes it competitive on cost/GB-month terms with cheaper providers, and of course rsync’s infra and redundancy are rock solid.
Electromechanical relays below the maze. Phone switches at the phone company labs.
Wire transfers from my bank in the US require me to call up and make a request.

Writing a check is the fastest way for me to transfer between two accounts. :(
I think he means that they use another domain (third-party cookies), not that they have no domain at all
> Each team should set up their own monitoring and alerting rules.

I agree with the general sentiment of it. But in practice this leads to a lot more chaos. There are a lot of benefits of templatizing standards metrics for any service that is launched with right SLI/SLOs. Associating it with high and slow burn rates bifurcates issues that needs immediate attention to be fixed vs something thats slowing eating into your service, but doesn't need to be acted on right away.
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Oh my God, it's a reference to the "sudo make me a sandwich" XKCD on top of it all.
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Charge money, either directly for the content, or indirectly in the form of patronage or a service or other business you run.
> People clearly don't just tolerate this, but embrace it.

If there were an opt-in way of doing this, it wouldn't bother me. Similarly with online tracking, if it were opt in only, it wouldn't bother me.

What is frustrating is the lack of transparency or ability to control who and where my data is collected.
Any list somewhere which provides a list of affected OSs or at least how to check?
Well actually, a lot of proteins become the proteins that they are in animals via biosynthesis. But yes, at the bottom of the food chain plants capture the energy of sunlight which supports everything up the chain.
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We're excited about both (borg is also built into our platform). We're tending to steer people to borg for "plain old backup" and saving rclone for the interesting use-cases that involve platform-to-platform data transfer ...
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